Improvement in hanging carriage-bodies



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MPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPRER. WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SUHAROH, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANGING CARRIAGE-BODIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,081, dated October 23, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SOHARCH, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Connecting the Bodies of Carriages with the Springs; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the carriage, the connections being in section. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a connecting-iron detached. Fig. 4 is a brace-iron.

My improvement consists in the mode of connecting the body of a carriage with its springs, so as to strengthen and securely fasten the springs, reduce the number of joints, and cheapen the connections. Heretofore, when springs have been employed across the runhing-gear parallel with the axles, they have been affixed to a bolster on the upper side, made of wood, and connected by irons with the body, the irons running from the corners of the body to the bolster, where they were joined by clips or otherwise. This mode of connection was very defective and liable to break, and the joints often worked loose, re quiring constant repair, as I have found by long experience in the manufacture. To obviate this is my present design.

The construction is as follows: I form the body of the carriage in any style or form, a sample of one of which I show in the drawings at a. b is an elliptic spring affixed to the rear axle, and c is a similar one over the fore axle.

A strong iron or steel fixture of U shape, (7, (seen detached in Fig. 3,) is securely fastened to the bottom of the carriage-body at the front and rear ends, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, and the curved part projects beyond the bodyover the spring on which. it rests. This curved part, as is clearly indicated in the drawings, is made broad and flat, and is firmly secured to the spring by a couple of clips, 0, the ends of which pass down through holes in a plate, f, which is on the end of a brace-rodn', affixed to the center of the body, as seen in Fig. 2. This iron is shown separate in Fig. 4, and there are two of them, one for each spring forward and back. The clips 0 are screwed fast to the platef, as clearly seen in Fig. 4, and by this fastening the springs are connected in a permanent and durable way.

I sometimes contemplate extending the U- pieces at under the body and joining them, so as to form but one piece, for the purpose of strengthening the parts, and, if madeot' steel, great strength and lightness are effected thereby.

Having thus described my improved mode of hanging carriage-bodies or connecting them with springs,what I claim therein as new, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, 1s-

The attachment of the springs to the body, as and for the purposes set forth.

HENRY SGIIAROH.

Witnesses J. J. GREENOUGH, ALBERT H. Hoox. 

